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Where ideas are born
So where does long-term prosperity come from? From innovation. And where does innovation come from? From ideas. And where do ideas come from? From thinking. …
Hanging with the right crowd
The best part of being smart isn’t that you know more than the average joe. It’s that you get to hang around with other smart …
It’s all about You
This is illustration is about a reality that’s far too common in far too many companies. It’s “lack of ownership”. Nobody is every blamed, but …
Do you have the creative gene?
“Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art” – Andy Warhol famously said.“Making money is art and working is art and good business …
Love is the new metric
Something changed. It used to be, money was the only metric you needed to pay attention to. If you made ‘x thousand’, you were happy. If …
Who is going to save the world?
“Entrepreneurship is not a religion. It’s far more important than that.” Why are entrepreneurs the way they are? Because they have no choice. Entrepreneurship is …
Happiness is a competitive advantage
The great book “The Happiness Advantage”, by Sean Achor basically states that success follows happiness, not the other way around. His TED talk is certainly worth watching. That’s counterintuitive, …
The art of iteration
One of the best business books of the last decade is Eric Ries’ “The Lean Startup”. A great guy, we had dinner with him at SXSW …
Make mine a bias-free latte
In 2008 Howard Schultz regained the CEO role at Starbucks and began a process of taking the business forward… by taking it backward. His idea was …
You gotta keep it real
Yes. We know. Being your most authentic self is the best thing to be. The trouble is that it’s hard. It’s a complex world out …
One for the haters
There is no ladder. There is no “right way”. There’s just you and God, and sometimes God is on your side, sometimes he ain’t. And …
You can’t have one without the other
This is another way of saying, it doesn’t matter how good your idea is, if you you can’t get buy-in from other people, if other …
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